{"id":580296,"date":"2025-11-19T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580296\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:21:17","slug":"full-list-of-award-winning-indian-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580296\/","title":{"rendered":"Full List of Award Winning Indian Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/britishindiangoodfoodguide.com\/best-100-indian-restaurants-uk-british-indian-good-food-guide-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Indian Good Food Guide<\/a> is a yearly list of the 100 best Indian restaurants in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Though a London institution didn\u2019t top the list this year \u2013 that honour went to Raval Indian Brasserie &amp; Bar in Newcastle \u2013\u00a0the capital still did\u00a0pretty well for itself, with six restaurants named as \u2018London Icons\u2019, and a further 22 restaurants included in the overall Top 100.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The British Indian Good Food Guide calls itself \u2018a celebration of excellence in British-Indian dining\u2019. The independent publication has selected a host of amazing spots across England, Scotland and Wales, assessing them on \u2018cooking, consistency, hospitality and the overall dining experience\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018London Icons\u2019 for 2025 are \u2018restaurants whose sustained excellence has helped shape London as a global Indian dining capital\u2019. They\u2019re all in central London, and each one has held a Michelin star at some point. They are <strong>Cinnamon Club<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/we-tried-the-best-indian-restaurant-in-london-heres-what-it-was-like-111824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Quilon<\/strong> in Westminster<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/gymkhana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gymkhana<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Jamavar<\/strong>, and <strong>Benares<\/strong> in Mayfair, and last but not least, <strong>Veeraswamy<\/strong>, which is Britain\u2019s oldest Indian restaurant and can be found just off Regent\u2019s Street.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the London restaurants featured in the British Indian Good Food Guide range from very plush, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/trishna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trishna<\/strong> in Marylebone<\/a>, to more casual neighbourhood joints such as Time Out favourites, the vegetarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/rasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rasa<\/strong> in Stoke Newington<\/a>, and <strong>Babur<\/strong> in Forest Hill, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/dishoom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covent Garden branch of <strong>Dishoom<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>London restaurants in the 2025 British Indian Good Food Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The full list\u00a0of London restaurants in the 2025 Indian Good Food Guide is\u00a0as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central London<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Cinnamon Club, Westminster<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Quilon, Westminster<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Gymkhana, Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kanishka, Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Benares, Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Jamavar, Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Amaya, Belgravia<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Tamarind, Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Veeraswamy, Mayfair<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Trishna, Marylebone<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>City, Soho &amp; West End<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Dishoom, Covent Garden<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kricket, Soho<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Hoppers, Soho<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Tandoor Chop House, Covent Garden<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Zaika, Kensington<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Gunpowder, Spitalfields<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Brigadiers, Mansion House<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Caf\u00e9 Spice Namast\u00e9, Docklands<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Darjeeling Express, Soho<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Bombay Brasserie, Kensington<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>South and west London<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kutir, Chelsea<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kahani, Chelsea<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Shiuli, Twickenham<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Heritage, Dulwich<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Babur, Forest Hill<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Chokhi Dhani, Battersea<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>North London<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Rasa, Stoke Newington<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Masalchi, Wembley<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Did you see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/the-north-london-road-that-is-officially-one-of-the-coolest-streets-in-the-world-for-2025-111925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this north London road is officially one of the coolest streets in the world for 2025<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VabxG0jK0IBqoptkHH3i\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VabxG0jK0IBqoptkHH3i\" data-modified- target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Stay in the loop: sign up to our\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/newsletter?cid=uk~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/newsletter?cid=uk~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" data-modified- target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British Indian Good Food Guide is a yearly list of the 100 best Indian restaurants in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,13285,393,4884,257,13286,280,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-580296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news-eating","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115576104100574582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}